I sent letters of support for the project school renewal project to provincial ministers last night and here is an answer I received this morning 😡….. a good demonstration of ignorance!!! Google translate exists Yet……. 🤨 no meaning!!!!!

-Melanie Gallant

As the Opposition Critic for Acadian and Francophone Affairs I find this very disappointing.

The French Language Services Act, originally passed by a former PC government, has clear rules that require official correspondence to be replied to in the original language it was received in.

The Minister may not speak French but there are many public servants who do and could have helped prepare a proper response.

The issue being discussed was about local school infrastructure needs and the community concerns being raised were dismissed out of hand with the Minister’s rude and inappropriate response which is just wrong.

Government needs to make a better effort to live up to the spirit of its own law.